Ashley Bardhan
Ashley is a Senior Writer at 12DOVE. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan

Final Fantasy 7's original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG's infamous love triangle: "What a lucky guy"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Having two girlfriends is both a gift and a curse

South of Midnight’s nasty-looking, dinosaur-sized alligator boss already has the potential to become my favorite villain ever
By Ashley Bardhan published
News That's one big alligator

XDefiant just put out an absolutely massive patch featuring 3 new factions and more for a game you can't even download now
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Ubisoft's FPS takes its last breath

There are "many very valid worries and responses" to Ciri taking the lead in The Witcher 4, but CDPR says "we're not suddenly making up stuff just because we want to"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Ciri will go where the lore takes her

Civilization 7 fans jealous of old man with wonderful flexibility beg the strategy game's developer to make him stop dancing
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Prospector hit the Griddy

Secret Level will keep adapting games like Armored Core and Pac-Man as Amazon's Prime Video renews for season 2
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Secret Level is coming back for more

Fallout co-creator has made so many cult favorite RPGs, but he's not turning any of them into franchises for one very good reason: "The problem is the cult part"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Just play Fallout 2 and be grateful

Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory after scaring new Illuminate invaders out of the galaxy, only for the creepy squid aliens to come running back
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Don't lay down your arms just yet

The Witcher 4 director on lessons learned from the "struggles" of Cyberpunk 2077's release: "It's a continuation of the evolution, improvement, and transformation"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News CD Projekt Red is taking a new approach

Caves of Qud co-creator's tip to tackle this sci-roguelike epic is also my tip for learning RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3: beef up and get a big ol' sword
By Ashley Bardhan published
News You'll feel safer when you're swole

The Witcher 4 will bring back diehard fans' most favorite minigame since CD Projekt Red loves it too: "I don't think anyone will be disappointed"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Prepare to get Gwent-ed

Elden Ring is officially FromSoftware's most popular game — it outsold the developer's entire Dark Souls series by 2 million copies
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Elden Ring supremacy

As Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth finally escapes PlayStation prison, the JRPG's director says "I recommend the PC version" for the "improved lighting"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out on PC in January

Helldivers 2 director says the new Illuminate update is for the most hardcore players: "You can’t match everyone’s needs"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Casuals, watch out

PlayStation devs on Astro Bot share their GOTY acceptance with Nintendo, the king of platformers: "We want to pay tribute to them tonight"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News The console wars are on pause

Splitgate 2 gets new gameplay trailer at The Game Awards, and the 4v4 portal shooter has never looked so ridiculously fun
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Splitgate 2 does not yet have an official release date

As if The Outlast Trials couldn't get any more deranged, the horror co-op game's big new update adds more tooth guns and lady who lives in the walls
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Project Breach is out now

Cyberpunk 2077 dev offers temporary beta branch so that Update 2.2 doesn’t make your mods explode
By Ashley Bardhan published
News It'll be available until January

Path of Exile 2 is dropping loot more generously, but Early Access players are still being bankrupt by the action RPG’s high respec costs: "Why am I being punished for trying out things?"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Power to the proletariat

"It seems we've missed the mark": As their Steam review score drops to 14%, Dauntless devs wade into feedback after a disastrous update that gutted progress
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Dauntless is having a very bad week

Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand devs say Baldur's Gate 3-style level caps help make games shorter, because not everybody has "time for 100-hour RPGs"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "It'd be much nicer if it was a 20 or 30-hour game"

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says that it's absolutely essential to Square Enix that his team makes Part 3 "the best experience we possibly can"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Good thing Part 2 is already so great

Forget Baldur's Gate 3, the Critical Role team are talking about creating their own video game
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "We've been talking about creating a video game since we first started playing together"
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